Flight 19 is one of the most famous Bermuda Triangle incidents of all time. On December 5, 1945, five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers disappeared during a navigation and combat training flight.
It is a bright, sunny day over Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Five experienced pilots have carefully checked their Avenger torpedo bombers and are ready to take off on a routine two-hour navigation and combat training flight. Two hours later, the control tower at Fort Lauderdale receives a frantic call from the flight leader saying that they do not know where they are because they cannot see land. After ten minutes of no contact with Flight 19, the control tower receives another hysterical call saying, “We can’t tell where we are...everything is...can’t make out anything.” A few minutes later, the tower receives the final words ever heard from Flight 19, “It looks like we are entering white water... We’re completely lost.”
Within minutes, the control tower sent out a rescue plane to search for Flight 19. Ten minutes after departure, the men on the rescue plane checked in with the control tower and were never heard from again. After five days and 700,000 square kilometers, not a single piece of wreckage was found.
Over the last twenty-five years, more than 75 planes have disappeared and 1,000 ships have been lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2309852
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq15-2.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_19
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